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Through Dreamscape Learn, students visit an Intergalactic Wildlife Sanctuary, where they collaborate with an artificial intelligence to discover, investigate and solve novel scientific problems. While flying a mobile laboratory, students encounter extraterrestrial ecosystems containing endangered species from across the galaxy. These life forms range from oddly curious to fiercely dangerous, but all follow scientific principles of life on Earth.
Data collected in the experience about the organisms and environments are automatically exported to the learning management system, where they can be accessed for collaborative application with peers. Once in class, students discuss observations, analyze data, discover patterns and test hypotheses. Each mission in the Intergalactic Wildlife Sanctuary facilitates the development of practical skills, such as building models, producing graphs and calculating statistics.
Studies show academic success through VR-enhanced learning
The Action Lab, located within EdPlus at Arizona State University, is committed to transforming learning through scholarly research and sharing findings to impact educational practices. They recently conducted the Dreamscape Learn (DSL) Spring 2022 study, which investigated the use of virtual reality as a narrative storytelling tool to enhance the undergraduate biological science curriculum. The preliminary findings were exciting and signify a significant development in the structure of introductory biological science courses at ASU. The DSL and non-DSL lab sections had similar demographic and academic characteristics, including gender, first-generation status and honors student status.
Those in DSL courses were 1.7 times more likely to receive an “A” in their lab assignments with a median score of 96%. Among the diverse population at ASU, each group performed better than their non-DSL peers, which was especially profound in students from historically marginalized groups. Students were also highly engaged in the content, rating the experiences on average 4.4 out of 5.